How To Remove 9oogle Hijacker From PC

Complete Guideline To Delete 9oogle

9oogle is a browser hijacking application which upon getting into the Windows PCs, starts interrupting users with annoying ads and constant redirects. Name of this potentially unwanted program has been imitating the highly popular search engine-Google. Nonetheless, despite of similarity in their names, they don’t involve similar traits. Google is the most commonly used search provider. On the other hand, you should avoid using this hijacker for your web searches. Users affected with this PUP only get manipulated search results, filled with commercial contents and sponsored links right at the top.

Know More About 9oogle:

Similar to other unwanted programs, 9oogle also focuses on displaying intrusive pop-up ads that redirecting victims’ online traffic to affiliate sites. However, due to this, victims may end up on malevolent web portals promoting fake deals or deceptive tools. This nasty hijacker affects your time online severely by delivering annoying commercial material on each web page you visit. This advertising technique is not always dangerous but, you should still avoid interacting with these adverts as they might take you to malware-laden portals, hosting trojan, spyware, PUPs, ransomware and other cyber threats. Some of the common symptoms of 9oogle:

• altered appearance of browsers’ homepage;
• pop-up windows with commercial content;
• banners promoting games or tools;
• constant redirects to unsafe sites;
• high usage of CPU resources;
• slow browser and system freezes.

One of the most common traits of browser hijackers like 9oogle is data tracking. This notorious parasite inserts spying cookies on web browsers and constantly monitors victims’ online activities like pages they visit, links they click on, search queries they type and so on. It gathers important information regarding their browsing preferences and interests which is then utilized by the advertisers for advertisement campaign. This is the reason why most of the ads served by this PUP are eye-catching and can easily gain anyone’s attention. 9oogle can also steal your personal and sensitive data like credit card details and expose them to cyber criminals for evil purposes.

This perilous malware keeps contributing malicious activities in the background all the time which consumes enormous amount of memory resources and slows down the overall PC performance drastically. It changes the settings of Windows registries by making vicious entries in it which allows the PUP to get automatically activated with each computer startup. This notorious threat might trigger many other hazardous issues onto the infected PCs like frequent system crash, boot errors, application malfunctioning, data loss, hard drive crash and so on. And so, a quick 9oogle removal is strongly required.

Quick Glance

Name: 9oogle  

Type: Browser hijacker, Redirect virus, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Makes changes to default browser’s settings, Redirects users to third-party web pages, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online profits for the creators. 

Symptoms: Modified startpage, search engine, new tab settings, regular appearance of intrusive commercial contents, redirects to unknown domains, fake pop-up messages, identity theft. Users are enforced to search the Internet using fake search engines, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

How Does This Hijacker Enter Your System?

Careless software installations pose high risk of getting unwanted programs if users choose questionable sources and skip through necessary steps. Using peer-to-peer networks and selecting Quick or Default installation settings often lead to PUP intrusion. Moreover, malicious advertisements that promote software or tools in pop-up windows and banners also trigger hijacker installation.

And therefore, use only reputable sources, official sites or App Stores to download apps or tools and always select Custom of Advanced settings to take control over the incoming downloads. These options allow you to opt-out all the additional offers from the list and choose only the main software. Stay away from deceptive adverts as they may lead you to phishing or scam sites where you might be tricked into installing rogue software or purchasing useless products. But at the moment, you must remove 9oogle from the computer without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove 9oogle:

Remove the related items of 9oogle using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing 9oogle issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (9oogle) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to 9oogle removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to 9oogle still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove 9oogle plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in 9oogle removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete 9oogle (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.

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